Improvement in crosscut-saws



WILLAM CLEMSON. Improvement in Cross-Cut Saws.-

N0. 118,1498. Patented Aug. 22., 1871.

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UNrran 'raras 11eme WILLIAM OLEMSON, OF MIDDLETOWN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN CROSSCUT-SAWS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 118,198, dated August 22, 1871.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it Aknown that I, WILLIAM GLEMsoN, 'of Middletown, in the county of Orange, in the State of New York, have invented certain Iniprovements in Orosscut-Saws, of which the following is a specification:

rI he object of this invention is to improve what is generally known as the rluttle saw; and it consists in the shape and arrangement of the teeth that compose the saw.

In the drawing, Figure l shows a section of a saw-blade havin g the teeth made in the forni and arranged as is hereafter described 5 and Fig. 2 is a section of a saw-blade, showing a modification of the saine arrangement of cuttingpoints, but the teeth and dust-spaces unlike those in Fig. 1.

A is a section or part of a blade of a crosscntsaw having the teeth out on one edge. a and a are the ordinary tleain or scoring-teeth. Teeth' a are filed beveling and set from one side ot' the plate, while teeth a are beveled and set from the opposite side. b b are clearing or ripping-teeth, and are in pairs, set back to back, are both iled on their inclined sides with a bevel from the saine side of the plate, and are not set to either' side oi' the plate, while the front edges of the teeth are perpendicular, or of the same dista-nce at the cutting-points that they have at their bases. In other words, the front edges are parallel and are filed at right angles with the saw-blade on their front edges. b b are the saine in shape as b b,

but are beveled from the opposite side of the saw. The teeth a a b and b are all the same length, which is not usual in saws having clearer or ripteeth that are alternated with eam or scoringteeth; and the advantage of this arrangement is this, that, while the pairs of teeth b :and b act as clearers, they also score to the saine depth as teeth a and af, and, beingbeveled only on one side, the other being filed square across and the front side upright, gives a blnnter cutting or scoring-point than what is on teeth a and a', and, therebeing no setin these clearin g-teeth ,they out or score inside of the score ofthe teeth a and af, thus cutting the wood that is removed from the kerf into smaller particles there being four scores or cuts instead of two in other saws-and when so ent will be easier to remove or be cleared from the kerf, which is done by the blunt-er points on the pairs of teeth b and b.

A saw having the teeth in the form and arranged so that the pairs of clearing-teeth b and b will alternate with the scoringteeth a and a is easily constructed and kept in order, while there is ample dust-space between the pairs of clearingteeth and the adjacent scoring-teeth to prevent clogging.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is A saw, havin g the scoring-teeth a, and a and pairs ofclearing or ripping-teeth l) and b', constructed and arranged with relation to each other, as herein described and shown.

IVM. OLEMSON.

Witnesses:

NEWTON CRAWFORD, GEO. G. PoULToN. 

